god
The Chimaera
Chimaera
also: Chimaera
A fire-breathing monster of myth—lion in front, she-goat in the middle, serpent behind; Lucretius uses it to prove that no creature of incompatible natures can exist.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.49 Chimaera
A fire-breathing monster—lion in front, she-goat in the middle, serpent behind; cited to show that no creature of incompatible natures can really exist.